Showing papers in "Computers in Human Behavior in 2012"

TL;DR: Results from structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that respondents who were driven by gratifications of information seeking, socializing, entertainment, status seeking, and status seeking were more likely to share news in social media platforms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the personality correlates (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness-to-Experience, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Sociability and Need-for-Cognition) of social and informational use of the two largest SNS: Facebook and Twitter.

TL;DR: It is shown that brand trust has a full mediating role in converting value creation practices into brand loyalty and that such communities could enhance brand loyalty through brand use and impression management practices.

TL;DR: Using a large sample of college students to examine the relationship among multiple measures of frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and time spent preparing for class and actual overall GPA revealed that time spent on Facebook was strongly and significantly negatively related to overall GPA.

TL;DR: The findings show that behavioral beliefs in combination with social influences and personal traits are all important determinants for mobile payment services adoption and use, but their impacts on behavioral intention do vary across in different stages.

TL;DR: Empirical verification supported that this fraudulent account detection system can successfully identify fraudulent accounts in early stages and is able to provide reference for financial institutions.

TL;DR: The results supported predictions that gender and scores on the Big Five personality scale would moderate online social networking behavior and showed men reported using social networking sites for forming new relationships while women reported using them more for relationship maintenance.

TL;DR: A systematic review of recent literature addressing engagement in computer games found a diverse range of studies was identified that examined varied aspects of engagement in games including subjective experiences while playing games, the physiological concomitants of these experiences, motives forPlaying games, game usage and time spent playing games and the impact of playing on life satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used both a survey of Facebook users and actual Facebook data to uncover why some individuals are more involved in Facebook than others, using the Five Factor Model of personality to predict attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: Results confirm the proposed model, and moderator analysis indicates that culture does have specific moderating effects on mobile commerce adoption.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article was to provide a comprehensive review of research on video podcasts from 2002 to 2011 in order to guide future studies and educational practice.

TL;DR: It appears that previous studies might have defined the concept of anonymity too broadly by not addressing other online communication factors, especially lack of eye-contact, that impact disinhibition.

TL;DR: Personal psychological characteristics of Taiwanese female university students which can significantly predict mobile phone addiction are identified;Female university students with mobile phone Addiction will make more phone calls and send more text messages.

TL;DR: Females, younger people, and those not currently in a committed relationship were the most active Facebook users, and there were many age-, sex-, and relationship-related main effects.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the online game players' physical and social proximity as well as their mutual familiarity influence bridging and bonding social capital, and that both social capital dimensions are positively related to offline social support.

TL;DR: The results indicated that initial trust develops along a dual route including the central route and peripheral route, which implies that service providers need to employ differentiated strategies to build users' initial trust in mobile banking.

TL;DR: The results suggest that reciprocity, trust, satisfaction, and seller creativity provide considerable explanatory power for intention to engage in online group buying behavior.

TL;DR: A survey of business students at a large state university revealed a statistically significant negative relationship between time spent by students on OSN and their academic performance, and attention span was found to be highly correlated with characteristics that predict or influence student behavior.

TL;DR: This paper is the first known study to employ UTAUT to interpret scholarly use of social media, a widely adopted technology acceptance theory, based on the content analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews of scholars in the Information Science and Technology field.

TL;DR: A significant relationship between the content of privacy policies and privacy concern/trust; willingness to provide personal information and privacy concerns; privacy concern and trust is found.

TL;DR: Primary motive for Facebook use was to maintain long-distance relationships, followed by game-playing/entertainment, active forms of photo-related activities, organizing social activities, passive observations, establishing new friendships, and initiating and/or terminating romantic relationships.

TL;DR: It is found that participation in online political groups is strongly correlated with offline political participation, as a potential function of engaging members online, but it is failed to confirm that there is a corresponding positive relationship between participation inOnline political groups and political knowledge.

TL;DR: Testing the role of perceived social capital and flow experience in driving users to continue using SNSs based on the expectation-confirmation model of information systems continuance shows that perceived bridging and bonding social capital have different role in building users' satisfaction and continuance intention.

TL;DR: Examination of system-generated cues available in social media impact perceptions of a source's credibility indicates that curvilinear effects for number of followers exist, such that having too many or too few connections results in lower judgments of expertise and trustworthiness.

TL;DR: Examining the frequency with which students multitask during class and the relationship between multitasking and academic performance as measured by actual overall semester grade point average (GPA) finds that only social technologies were negatively related to GPA.

TL;DR: It was concluded that students who are high in openness use Facebook to connect with others in order to discuss a wide range of interests, whereas students who is high in loneliness use the site to compensate for their lack of offline relationships.

TL;DR: Understanding the role of the learner's sense of presence may be particularly important in distance learning situations in which students and the instructor are physically separated.

TL;DR: Regression analyses revealed that personality factors play an important role in how SNS are used, and extraverts are more likely to use the communicative function of SNS including status update, comment, and adding more friends.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the user's affective experience with the usability of the shop might serve as a mediator variable within the aesthetics-usability relation: the frustration of poor usability lowers ratings on perceived aesthetics.

TL;DR: Results suggest that in order of importance only perceived severity, self-efficacy, perceived vulnerability, and gender are antecedents of information privacy concerns with social networking sites.